The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-18
FLORIDA.

The South Florida railroad will have a
new schedule next week.
Messrs. Dunlap s. Clark, of Barlow, have
formed a copartnership for the practice of
law.
1t is said Mr.. Flagler will give st. Angus
tine the largest daily paper in the State
next winter.
Lake county, says the Tavares Herald,
will have seven newspapers-one to every
$50 voters, including the colored.
G, w. Jennings, young Orlando typo,
had his room entered Thursday night and
$65, the savings of several months, stolen
A wagon load of oranges at 15c. per dozen
were sold on the streets of Orlando Monday
The price is quite cheap for this season of
the year.
A young Mr. Albriton of DeSoto county,
has acknowledged to the shooting of Mr..
Wilson at Popash last year. He was paid
$40 by neighbor to do it.
Addison Fee and j. r. Lyman, of Mel
! bourne, captured turtle on the beach last
Saturday that measured five feet in length,
and had 16S eggs in its nest.
Mr.. Gay carried in wagon load of grape
fruit to Arcadia Wednesday-mor than he
could dispose of-and the Arcddian office is
indebted to him for bagful of the fruit.
The Palatka young man who recently
teItainment in buggy and went to sleep
on the way is to be pitied-not laughed at.
The celebration at Plant City on June "A,
upon the completion of the Florida Southern
railroad TO that point, has been indefinitely
| postponed on account of the yellow fever
scare
| 1t is reported in Jacksonville that Mai.
! Fenwick, formerly of the DeBary- Baya line,
has been appointed general freight and
passenger agent of the Florida Southern
railroad.
The Pensacola parties directly interested
| in the Pensacola and Memphis railroad are
now in Meridian, Miss, in attendance upon
a meeting of the directors of that railroad
| company.
Two or three punches of old sacking,
wrapped with Irvine and ignited, are tied to
most every vehicle in Titusville Tho smoke
keeps Off the fies. They are not handsome,
but mighty effectunl.''
A committee appointed at a recent meet
ing of Local Assembly No. 1884, K of. l.. -,
Of Pensacola, has perfected arrangements
| for grand picnic, to be held at Magnolia
Bluff on the Fourth of July.
There are fifteen prisoners in the Orlando
| county Jail. Three of these are from Hills
boro county and one from Polk county.
Five are charged with murder, four from
| Hillsboro and Polk and one from Orange.
| The Incorporation of the Windsor, Lake
Newman and Prairie Creek Street Car,
! Canal and Navigation Company have for
their object the operation of street cars in
! Windsor and steamboats, ON Newnan's Lake
| 1t is proposed to have meeting of the
! friends of temperance reform in Orange
county at Orlando on Tuesday, June 81, to
consult together in relation to putting arti-
Gle 10 of the constitution into effect by smut
tiY,er ,atfl
Delegates are expected from every precinct
within the present limits of Orange county.
The Palatka Board of Trade Is at work
trying to induce the Florida Southern rail-
way to put on weekly excursion train to
run from, say Hawthorn to Palatlia, in the
morning and return at night, the fare TO be
one price for the round trip. 1t would be a
great accommodation TO the people along
the line who have business in Paatka and
no doubt hundreds would come to town each
day the train ran.
The impression seems to exist that the at
tempt to have a celebration Mt Sanford on
July has been abandoned on account of
the fever scare. This is a great mistake
The celebration will take place exactly as
has been advertised, and preparations are
being made TO entertain a large crowd
Reduced rates have been secured on all the
railroads, and special trains will run at
hours TO suit eXcursonists.
Ten of Palatka's leading citizens have
formed themselves into gun club and Will
begin practice in a short while. Two traps
and 5000 clay pigeons have already been
ordered and rare sport is expected by the
members of the club. In connection with
the gun club will be n rifle team, and some
expert shooting viii be done during the next
few months. The club will hold weekly
practice meetings outside the city limits.
Concord Is a small village containing
about 100 inhabitants. situated in fertile
section of country in the northwestern por-
ton Of Gadsden county, two miles south Il
the Georgia line, and four miles cast OF
Ocllockonee river. IL is sixteen miles from
Quincy, eighteen miles from Tallahassee,
twenty-five miles from cambridge, Ga,
and twenty-eight miles from Townsville,
Ga. 1t has tri-weekly mail from Quincy.
The people of Spring Garden, on Lake
George, Just beyond Drayton Island, since
the withdrawal of all the boats on the river,
with the exception Of tho II, b, Plant and